Mike Wiendels
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Mike Wiendels
Hire talented people as found, not as needed.
—Anna Wintour
designing in layers
the best software doesn’t overwhelm you on day one or abandon you when you get sophisticated. it grows with you through carefully designed “layers” that reveal themselves exactly when you need them.
think of it like learning to drive. you start with acceleration, brake,... See more
Ryo Lux.comOn intuition and asking for feedback:
“Henry Ford didn’t need focus groups to tell him that people would prefer inexpensive, dependable automobiles over horses. Alexander Graham Bell never stopped to worry about whether people would prefer speaking to each other on the phone. If viewers liked watching news on television, why wouldn’t they want the
... See moreHow we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
— Annie Dillard, ’The Writing Life’, 1989
There’s also something to be said about collating and curating in the slow writing process—facts, knowledge, smells, descriptions, stories, passport stamps, headlines—until the collection becomes part of the transformation process. Through acute and critical attention, away from the drive of production, toward the singularity of studying a branch,... See more
Melissa Matthewson • A Revolution in Creativity: On Slow Writing
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